A note from our Clubhouse Director...

As some will have noticed the clubhouse has been redecorated and the common area converted into an entertainment and gathering room. Please ensure that you and or your family keep the room clean and maintained for the benefit of all members. In addition please refrain from storing goods in this room unless absolutely necessary, we have plenty of sheds available. I understand the boat and motor currently in there will be removed.

A gas griddle has been purchased for member use and is on the deck. Insure you follow the lighting instructions, clean it properly and reseason the griddle upon use. It takes some time for this to cool down so be cautious prior to putting the cover on.

I recently came out on a Friday and found one of the gas burners on in the kitchen, could have been on all week? Please ensure all burners are off prior to leaving the kitchen.

David Darlington is now the bar manager.

Special thanks to the many members that assisted with the clubhouse over the last few weeks, very much appreciated.

Regards,
Richard

The races will run June 25 and 26. Here are the Notice of Race, page 1 and page 2. Here is Registration Form and the PHRF Form for handicapping. Write to Fleet Captain Linda Dalsin for details.

From the Wabamun Watershed Management Council...

I am writing to make you aware of a planned AIS inspection station event planned for the Wabamun boat launch site Saturday July 23, 2022.

[This notice] has gone out to all adjacent municipalities announcing the event and inviting them to attend. As active lake users, we feel this event would certainly be of interest to your members as well. Please feel free to share as you see fit.

I would be happy to answer any questions you may have about the event or the activities of the Wabamun Watershed Management Council (WWMC).

All the best,
Neil Fleming,
WWMC

Hello Ladies of EYC, SBYC Yacht Clubs and WSA

We are hosting an unstructured, non-competitive and informal Ladies Day on the Water, Saturday, June 11, approx. 1-4pm.

The event is titled Wind, Waves, Women and Wine or WWWW. This is the first of this event, so we shall learn and make next years event even better.

To start, this is about ladies on the water however guys are welcome if safety is an issue.  There may be ladies that want to hop on other boats or may wish to go out on their own boat with partners.  The focus is ladies on the helm and as well as women crew.

There will be a fun race, likely one lap.  No race registration is required, no awards for finishes, no handicaps, boats will finish boat for boat.  There will be a ‘start’ which will be walked thru on Channel 72, so no worries there.

Following the fun race, boats will raft up for a Wine Tasting Event and a Meet and Greet. There will be some beer onboard for those who don’t favour wine.

The Cost: $10 per lady (for the wine – payable on the boat raft) and providing a small appetizer.

How the event works:

• EYC and SBYC will each arrange for their own boats and assign ladies to each boat 1200 – 1230h on their docks, then EYC and SBYC Boats will meet on the water east of EYC at 1300h. 
  
• There will be a Coach Boat (SBYC Whaler).  If you don’t have a racer on your boat, let the Whaler know (Channel 72) and they will make special note of you.

The contact/go to people for the event will be

• EYC: Linda Dalsin and Paul Kanter
  
• SBYC: Bonnie Reib and Nicole Sikora

Please RSVP with your intention to participate by Thursday EOD (so we purchase the correct amount of wine and identify the number of boats interested):

• fleetcaptain@edmontonyachtclub.com or
  
• fleetcaptain@sunshinebay.org
  

Best regards,
Bonnie Reib

The EYC sailing school has published its schedule, but a new addition for club members is a Saturday afternoon race team schedule for youth that we have secured a coach for if there is interest (cost will be reasonable and determined by how much interest there is). Please respond to me if you think you have teens that would like to get some coaching on race techniques and competitive sailing.

And the fun does not stop there. The Alberta Sailing Association (ASA) is hoping to get more people interested in becoming race officials. This is a great opportunity if you're interested in competition and would like to participate in the judging or as a race official. There is a short online course you would take.

What are the benefits of any of these undertakings? Besides joining an elite sport that allows travel across the province, the country and internationally as a competitor, it would give you a chance to earn scholarships if you plan to attend a University on the coastal waters of Canada or the US.

As a Race Official you get the chance to participate in events, should you rise to that level and see the world from the deck of a boat. but even just locally you have an opportunity to travel to local regattas and participate, rather than just be a spectator.

Think about it and if you would like to get more information, contact me at dal@edmontonyachtclub.ca, your local ASA board member.

– Thomas Kelm

Harbour Master Mark Vanderlinden is selling his 1973 San Juan 24. You can write to Mark for details, harbourmaster@edmontonyachtclub.ca.

Past Commodore Thomas Kelm, pastcommodore@edmontonyachtclub.ca, wrote to us with this update:

The Edmonton Yacht Club has been a longstanding member of Sail Canada through the Alberta Sailing Association (ASA). This allows us to offer Sail Canada recognized sailing instructions at our new sailing school. In order to give EYC more exposure at ASA, I have volunteered to join their executive on the board as secretary. I hope that with more direct involvement, we can find out what else ASA can do for us as a member club, to further our sailors that would like to compete in the sport at the provincial and maybe even national level.

I would also encourage everyone in the club that would like to know more to send me their questions or have them prepared at the AGM [Jan 26], when Stacy Gibb, the current ASA president will join our AGM to learn more about EYC and what our plans are.

This is a time when we as a club can look at the various options to grow the interest in the sport and with it our own membership numbers to ensure we stay viable and healthy for the next 100 years. (In case you have forgotten 2023 is our centennial!)

Thomas

Many EYC members have trailerable sailboats, yet they cannot be pulled out at Seba Beach because the lake water is so shallow there. One doesn't want to back a truck a hundred feet out into the lake to position the trailer (and it probably is a bad move, ecologically).

EYC's Bob Iveson has put together some kit to overcome this problem. We took photos from two separate operations (from two different years) and put them on this page to show how it's done.

Need a photo here of the hitch extender, on dry land, with no straps attached. Also need photo of straps and shackles.

Before putting the extender in the water, connect one of the straps to the its receiver. Note the rope holding the strap securely to the receiver:

Here's the other end of the strap:

In this case, the crew chose to push the trailer into the water before attaching the trailer to the extender's hitch:

You have to guess, "Where is the deepest water, so we don't have to push the trailer out half way to Coal Point?" Sometimes we guess it's immediately north of the south dock:

Sometimes it seems like the work of pushing the empty trailer out far enough to float the boat onto the trailer is never going to end. Sometimes you can "cheat", putting the bow in contact with the trailer and using the trailer's winch to haul the boat fully onto the trailer. Tip: early in the process, put a solution of dish soap and water onto the trailer bunks.

This boat and trailer is on its way to the shore:

Generally, at some point you'll run out of "runway" and have to remove a strap or two, back the truck closer to the shore and pull some more:

So satisfying!

Past EYC Commodore Neil Sutcliffe wrote to us from Okanagan Lake. Neil is "not getting much sailing in, due to the fires and poor weather (too hot & no wind, too cold & no wind, too smoky to see what kind of wind...).

"Pretty nuts how fast these fires travel. Yesterday we saw a little bit of smoke and a bit of flame on the south flank of Mount Law, By 6.00 pm it was an inferno climbing up the south flank of the mountain and along the valley towards West Kelowna. They hit it hard though. At one point 60 fire trucks, six water bombers and four helicopters plus a couple of large aerial tankers dumping retardant. Can’t imagine how difficult it must be for the firefighters in this terrain and these conditions."

Neil says he is reluctantly putting Radical Chic up for sale. Here is the PDF with all the details. The email address contained in the PDF is unclear; try nsutcliffe@shaw.ca.

The race will take place August 21 and 22, 2021. We're looking for volunteers to help run the race (free pizza!). Write to Fleet Captain Michael Morris, fleetcaptain@edmontonyachtclub.ca, to volunteer or for details about the race. Check back here for the Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions.